Accounting Technician – Fuels Tax Accounting Technician
Oregon Department of Transportation
Finance and Budget Division – Financial Services Branch
Fuels Tax Group
Salem
The role:
Bring your accounting experience to our team in Salem! As our fuels tax accounting technician, you will complete administrative tasks including answering phones, responding to emails, reviewing and approving license applications, performing bond reviews, completing refund audits and desk reviews, detailing adjustments, calculating additional changes or credits and preparing audit reports. In this role, you will work closely with other accounting staff to determine the allocation of funds and apply Oregon fuels tax laws. You’ll also provide information to other state agencies and the public to ensure compliance with laws. Apply today!
We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply for our positions. We hope you’ll join us on our path to increasing diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging through our values, commitments, strategies and actions.
A day in the life:
- Prepare and analyze fuels tax licensee files.
- Audit the reported tax against source documents and determine the accuracy of the gallons of fuel handled and taxes paid.
- Contact licensees to request additional information and to correct minor errors.
- Prepare adjustment schedules and calculate additional tax or credit due, late payment penalties and interest charges.
- Prepare an audit report summarizing findings and adjustments made to accounts.
- Review license applications for accuracy and completeness and verify information with other agencies.
- Enter records into the fuels tax system and provide supporting documents.
- Process license cancellations and verify that all requirements have been communicated and met.
- Work is performed in a typical office environment and requires filing documents in cabinets up to 5 feet high and lifting up to 10 pounds.
- To request a copy of the position description, which includes all duties and working conditions, please email ODOTRecruitment@odot.oregon.gov.
What’s in it for you:
- Work/life balance, 11 paid holidays a year, flexible work schedules, paid leave and so much more. Learn more about working at the Oregon Department of Transportation and the benefits we offer.
- Comprehensive and equitable base salary offer within the listed range. Through an equal pay assessment, we will determine the salary offer using the information you provide in your submitted application materials. Please ensure your application materials are detailed, accurate and reflect your skills, experience (paid and unpaid) and education as they relate to the position when applying.
- The salary range listed is the non-PERS monthly salary range. If you are already a participating PERS member or once you become PERS eligible, the salary range will increase by 6.95%.
- Public Service Loan Forgiveness opportunity!
Minimum qualifications:
Two years of experience calculating, recording, and maintaining accounting information that must include coding transactions and checking them for propriety, balancing, and resolving discrepancies in computer edits;
OR
One year of experience calculating, recording, and maintaining accounting information that must include coding transactions and checking them for propriety, balancing, and resolving discrepancies in computer edits AND at least 43 quarter (29 semester) credit hours from an accredited college, university, or vocational-technical school that includes 9 quarter (6 semester) credit hours in accounting. Credit hours must include introductory level accounting courses 1 and 2;
OR
At least 94 quarter (62 semester) credit hours or an associate degree from an accredited college, university, or vocational-technical school that includes 12 quarter (8 semester) credit hours in accounting. Credit hours must include introductory level accounting courses 1 and 2 and may include any additional accounting courses with “accounting” in the title.
Note: Training or experience must include using a computer to enter, update, or retrieve information.
What we’d like to see:
If you have these attributes, let us know in your application materials! It's how we will choose whom to move forward! You do not need to have all these qualities to be eligible for this position. We may also use transferable skills, experience, education and alignment with ODOT values to help us decide who will move forward.
- Experience working as part of a team in a regulatory setting.
- Experience understanding and administering laws and administrative rules.
- Experience tailoring written and verbal communications to a varied audience.
- Experience working under tight timelines with minimal supervision.
Learn more and apply:
This recruitment closes at 11:59 p.m. on Monday, April 14, 2025.
Please note that we can only accept applications through our website.
Questions? Call 503-910-6372 or email ODOTRecruitmentCC@odot.oregon.gov.
ODOT is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer